Austin Asian American Film Festival’s “Online Shorts” Lineup Announced


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The Austin Asian American Film Festival (AAAFF) kicked off the lineup for its Online Shorts Festival yesterday, with programming continuing through June 17, 2020. AAAFF’s Shorts Festival is in lieu of the 12th annual staging of the event, which was slated for July, but canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizers report that in-person screenings and a slate of feature films is postponed until late fall, pandemic permitting. “The opportunity to create an online shorts festival made it possible for us to highlight more films and filmmakers than we would usually be able to,” says AAAFF Executive Director Hanna Huang....